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yard — security advisory
YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. Prior to version 0.9.42, a path traversal vulnerability was discovered in YARD when using yard server to serve documentation. This bug would allow unsanitized HTTP requests to access arbitrary files on the machine of a yard server host under certain conditions. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.42.
- Products
- yard
- Affected versions
- 0.9.28-2, 0.9.28-2+deb12u1, 0.9.28-2+deb12u2, 0.9.34-1, 0.9.35-1, 0.9.36-1, 0.9.37-1, 0.9.38-1, 0.9.39-1, 0.9.44-1, 0.9.45-1, 1.17.patch1-5, 2.2-3, 2.2-4, 2.2-5
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-41493
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 17:46 UTC · Revision 2
Source evidence
YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. Prior to version 0.9.42, a path traversal vulnerability was discovered in YARD when using yard server to serve documentation. This bug would allow unsanitized HTTP requests to access arbitrary files on the machine of a yard server host under certain conditions. This issue has been patched in version 0.9.42.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-41493
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Complete source record
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